the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
😍 ok it is going to the top of my summer watch list!!!
I want to watch the Interview with a Vampire tv reboot since I think it deals with similar questions in a way (I started it but got distracted)
Yes absolutely!!
It is so good (understatement!!) and there are so many connections with the Haitian zonbi!
Sorry I totally missed this (have been off of the app this time!) but absolutely LOVED Sinners! I’m really curious about the vampire in the film in relation to race—a potential for a post-racial collectivity?? I haven’t read enough yet about the film but I want to explore this summer!
Really excited for this 😍
Meanwhile, while we were watching Congress... #GiftArticle
"DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment" 🗃️🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...
Tan Book cover with green and brown text. Upper right corner has a seventeenth century engraved image of a Black body that looks like classical sculpture with a white head. It is holding a sheaf of cane.
Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
As a historian 🗃️ I was grateful to be encouraged to write this for @americananthro.bsky.social. It's important to me not to just write about #Haitian history or the history of US foreign policy, but also to try to redress the effects of our actions NOW.
🙏 for reading! #WelcomingWithDignity
Translation: "we've done really inhumane things to people seeking asylum - and I applaud the President for that!"
(GTFO of the Senate, Mark Warner)
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“The work that I do is about pushing back against . . . these ideas that we have about language and . . . gender that are really quite rigid . . . Language can’t be separated from the people who do language.” Proud to be involved in this pod with @krisknisely.bsky.social and @cornelllrc.bsky.social
Really enjoyed reading "Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial" by Aubrey Gabel on @publicbooks.bsky.social discussing St. Omer by Alice Diop and Anatomie d'une chute by Justine Triet www.publicbooks.org/purging-the-...
#GiftArticle from the SDUT for reporting on the layoffs of my 115 staff colleagues at the San Diego Rapid Response Network/Jewish Family Services migrant shelter. We were a NAT’L MODEL & #WelcomedWithDignity legal migrants 24/7 for 7 years. 🤬💔🎁
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/15/s...
It’s the final weekend of the Zombis exhibition in Paris which includes a contribution by our amazing Haiti Support Group Exec Committee member Leah Gordon. Please support her fundraiser to safely store the artwork of the fantastic Haitian Collective Atis Resistans www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate
Kendrick: actually
Go birds! 🦅
It's so good !
THIS. So many 🤬s say “people shouldn’t have come illegally.”
These folks all came legally! But they’re changing the rules now on them - & these folks *put themselves on file* with the government by coming legally so they’re in worse shape than people who didn’t! 🤬💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬
Just got the news from the agency where I volunteer with migrants.
No migrants this week, no shelter guests, no airport shifts. CBP is releasing NO ONE to us. Total shutdown.
It might change next week & a few might cross - but it's 💔for migrants & the staff who might lose their jobs.
Thanks, Alyssa! Hi everyone!👋🏻